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Offer does not apply to wireless phones and pagers that require a service agreement. Offer does not apply when price includes bonus or free offers or one-of-a-kind or limited-quantity offers. NOTE: Does not apply to expired ads. Fry’s ads are valid for only stores listed in the ad.

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While I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know for sure what really happened I thought that it was something that should be pointed out.

John Formale San Jose

The only statements made without any merit are Sivertsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own and Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to treat her as an independent expert when clearly she is not.

Saadia Malik San Jose

Wine Wonder I liked this writeup (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Nose Knows,â&#x20AC;? Wine Column, March 11), as it spoke to me, a general wine drinker. I am not a â&#x20AC;&#x153;wine connoisseurâ&#x20AC;? so the information was helpful. I would like to see more articles like thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;educational and not condescending. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always nice to be a little knowledgeable during a dinner or wine party.

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Junior Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death was extremely sad (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fraternity Life & Death,â&#x20AC;? MetroNews, March 4). I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard on the parents but it appears they have no basis to say that the housemates had anything to do with it, especially with such certainty. But the reason I am writing is that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to clarify a

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When did Wiggsy Sivertsen appoint herself SJSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resident police detective? She was way out of line and out of her element, accusing Denise Johnson of inciting false murder allegations, and condemning the Spartan Daily for running an article questioning the events that led to Junior Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death, and the possible role of the fraternity brothers. Had she checked the facts before making such damaging conclusions to the press, she would know that the case is still under investigation, and as the article states, autopsy reports are inconclusive.

Dress It Up I loved the article on dressing up for Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Standing Tall,â&#x20AC;?

Style, Feb. 11). I am single and 52 and think that it is very important to â&#x20AC;&#x153;dress it up.â&#x20AC;? In these days of casual ďŹ&#x201A;irtations, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dial it up enough! Both men and women should really think twice about what they wear as it does add to attitude and sauciness.

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Chris Luebkeman, director for Global Foresight and Innovation at Ove Arup & Partners, a consulting firm for all aspects of the built environment, gave a talk titled “Urban Futures,” in which he vamped on general “Drivers of Change” the firm was asked to come up with to make the urban eco-city of tomorrow a reality. Like most presentations at the conference, several catch phrases and statements from the talk immediately reverberated across the Twitter landscape, especially this one: “The future is oversold and underimagined.”

Luebkeman also showed several maps of urban planning in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, including the years during which it had decayed into nothingness, with everyone splitting for the suburbs. “For seven to eight years it was completely abandoned,” he said with a tinge of astonishment in his voice. “Think about it. What if downtown San Jose was completely abandoned?”

I was the only one who laughed. In another statement that unintentionally highlighted San Jo, he said, “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”

After more slides and diagrams, Luebkeman posed a question: “If you could cut and paste anything in and out of your community, what would it be?” With that in mind, I next attended a talk on explosives.

“You guys aren’t very colorful dressers around here,” pronounced Dr. Christa Hockensmith, a chemist from the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center in New Mexico.

“Everyone’s wearing black and gray and white,” she observed from the stage.

Much of the dialogue at ETech centers on the future, and Hockensmith theorized that eventually energetic materials might drive jackhammers, nail guns, machining tools, chippers or anything currently powered by air or fluid. Even better, tiny-scale detonations could be used to implode cancerous tumors or to unclog arteries. And in a surprise bombshell announcement, Hockensmith revealed that there will be an explosives camp for high school kids this June in New Mexico, in order to prepare them for college study in energetic materials. Just the prospect of And in a surprise an “explosives camp” brought resounding hoots and cheers from the audience. bombshell announcement, “Don’t laugh,” she said. “This is real.

Hockensmith revealed And it’s only for kids, not old people. that there will be an Explosives are useful for things besides explosives camp for just randomly blowing stuff up. These kids, we have a lot of energy, willy-nilly, high school kids this that needs to be used.”

June in New Mexico ETech featured quite a bit of Bay Area talent as well. Aaron Koblin, a technology lead at Google’s Creative Lab in San Francisco, was director of technology for Radiohead’s Grammy-nominated cameraless House of Cards video. An over-the-top, downright insane laser rangefinder (LIDAR) similar to the one used for that project—a HDL-64E from Velodyne Acoustics in Morgan Hill—sat there in the Crystal Room at the Fairmont and scanned the audience while we watched Koblin’s presentation. The 3-D visuals were projected onto a screen on the wall to Koblin’s left. The Rolls Royce of its kind, the HDL-64E is a $75,000 monster employing 64 laser diodes to produce 1.3 million data points per second with a full 360-by-26.8-degree field of view and a 10 hertz refresh rate. Absolutely freakin’ sick.

Koblin will also collaborate with Dan Goods and Nik Hafermaas for eCloud, an artwork for the new terminal at Mineta San Jose International Airport consisting of hundreds of small square panels of electrically switchable laminated Plexiglas arranged to simulate a disperse cloud suspended from the concourse ceiling structure, with the opacities of the panels driven by data from live weather feeds.

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Of course, but “change” is rather a tame word for a potentially marketdisrupting expansion of Cisco’s business. This is a power grab, plain and simple. A game-changer. Cisco is offering an integrated approach to what’s long been a multivendor arrangement. Whereas before, CIOs would purchase servers from one company, virtualization software from another and networking from yet another, the networking giant is proposing they now purchase them together from a single vendor: Cisco. And that puts it on a collision course with IBM and HP. —JOHN PACZKOWSKI., HTTP://DIGITALDAILY.ALLTHINGSD.COM

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But while nearly everybody agrees that more change is coming, whether that change will be for better or worse for California’s ecology, economy and health and welfare is still up in the air. All that’s for sure is that with aging levees, dying species and the slow intrusion of seawater into the overpumped soil, things can’t go on the way they are now.

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This is a morning on the new Sacramento Bay Delta. True, the birds have been around for eons, the bridges are fairly old and most of the farms have been

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here for 100 years or more. But the Delta seen on this March morning is different from the one seen last year or the year before.

It’s an environment that through erosion, damming, dredging and river redirecting has changed so dramatically that maps more than 20 years old are nearly useless.

It’s also an environment on the brink. More than two-thirds of California residents get drinking

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Phil Sandstrom counts fish.

To be fair, the approximately 50 underwater receivers at the bottom of the Delta’s many rivers count the fish, and only the ones pretagged with ultrasonic sensors embedded in their body cavities.

But, in a 27-foot UC-Davis fishing boat, Sandstrom putters around the Delta yanking the receivers out of the muck and downloading their data into a matrix used by countless environmental groups, universities and military analysts.

This morning, he, along with volunteer and UCSC grad Gabe Singer, is harvesting 4-month-old data from receivers at Decker Island and Three Mile Slough.

“We’ve seen some high mortality rates in certain species,” says Sandstrom, while the data from the pipe-bomb-shaped monitor downloads into his laptop. “But it takes a lot of work to keep track of it, and we’re just not getting the money we need.” &'

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Sandstrom is a doctoral student whose dissertation is based on salmonid research, and though his funding has been cut completely this year due to California’s financial lockdown, he’s still on the water at least twice a week because, as he puts it, “the work still has to be done.”

With aging levees, dying species and the slow intrusion of seawater into the overpumped soil, things can’t go on the way they are now Sandstrom has a firsthand connection to disappearing fish like the Delta smelt and Longfin smelt that have been pushed to the edge of extinction due to habitat destruction and water pumps that change river currents and confuse the fish’s reproductive instincts.

As the boat nears Frank’s Tract, a “sunken island” caused by years of erosion and now a breeding ground for the invasive and damaging egeria plant, his obvious distaste begins to show.

“The levees protecting this entire area

are more than 100 years old, and they’re going to fail soon,” he says, as he pulls the boat away and heads back to the dock at Rio Vista. “And when they do, this whole area could be underwater.”

Sandstrom may be worried about the centurion levees, but local farmer Mike Robinson thinks they’ll be just fine.

“These are ancient levees. They’re settled levees and they’re sturdy,” says the third-generation Delta farmer while looking out at crusty dirt rows that will soon be alive with tomato plans. “We farmers are the best shepherds of the land there are. I never understood why people don’t realize that.”

Robinson is one of the few people content to keep the Delta as it is, although he admits this will require changes of its own. He says the Gov. Schwarzenegger–sponsored plan to create a peripheral canal that diverts Sacramento River water around the Delta would be a “disaster,” and he says his family’s 123-year-old water rights trump any other public or private needs for the water.

Robinson views the battle over Delta resources as another clash between Northern and Southern California interests, and assures that once cities like Los Angeles and San Diego get the extra water they are demanding, any interest in saving the region’s agriculture and animal species will vanish.

“Everyone’s attention is on the Delta right now because people need the water,” he says. “But what happens once they get it? And they will, somehow.

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Convey was also the first Reading player to play in the World Cup when he appeared with the U.S. National Team in 2006. He is now 25 years old. Convey normally plays wide left, where the Quakes’ English hero Darren Huckerby usually sets up shop, but Yallop will most likely play him in the middle instead. Also on board for the season is Bakersfield native and UC-Davis forward Quincy Amarikwa, whom San Jose chose in its third round (32nd overall) draft pick. Amarikwa just came off a stellar run at UC-Davis, where he appeared in 77 games over four seasons, notching 31 goals and seven assists. Other new acquisitions include New Zealand native and former L.A. Galaxy midfielder Simon Elliott. Yallop has a good track record with refurbishing former L.A. players, so we shall see.

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One of the most surprising trends this season is that clothing lines are eschewing the explosion of color usually seen when winter wear gives way to warmweather attire. Though yellow has been heralded widely as the new “it” hue this year, the rest of the color palette is generally subdued, with whites, grays and light earth tones more plentiful than in past seasons—most likely a symptom of the gloomy state of the economy.

White is a cool, clean shade, and depending on the cut and fabric, the LWD can be ultracasual or übersophisticated. While black is known for its slimming effects, white naturally draws attention wherever it goes.

As such, it is important to choose a fit that flatters, because a little paunch will end up looking like a Buddha belly in a skintight white garment. One benefit of an achromatic dress is that it plays up darker skin. If you’ve got a melanin-friendly complexion or have been strapped to the tanning bed all winter to keep the golden glow up, these dresses will show off your glowing epidermis.

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Cutout white stretch jersey dresses have also been big with the hipster crowd as of late. U.K. fashion house Religion sells a number of these but also runs the gamut of white dress styles.

Their other LWD offerings include floaty, virginal white chiffon frocks and punky skintight studded cotton minidresses.

Some couturiers are taking this trend to more frilly, feminine lengths, like designers B>AAN and C6C:II: A:EDG:. Milly’s Ecru Gauze Cord Embroidery Ruffle Dress, made out of a pallid translucent silk, has a romantic, off-the-shoulder fit, with fluttering ruffles at the sleeves and hem.

The bohemian aesthetic has also been worked into the LWD, with flattering baby-doll-cut dresses made out of bleached gauzy cloth or crisp eyelet cotton decorated with embroidery and beads.

However, be wary: if pale dresses are unlined, they tend to be see-through. As such, wearing the appropriate slips and leaving the bright pink panties and bra at home are a good idea. Whites also stain easy, so stock up on the bleach.

A plain LWD is also a great way to have some fun with accessories, whether it be a wide red belt, loading up on necklaces and bangles or topping off with a straw fedora. To get away from the barrage of gladiator sandals that are everywhere this spring, try a pair of bone-tone wedges, like 6:GDHDA:H Splurge Peep-Toe Dress Sandal. Their vintage-tinged look sports cute cutouts, laces and a sling-back.

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The Asian American Film Festival brings three days of features and documentaries to the valley

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OR THOSE needing a slow withdrawal from Cinequest, start with an opening-night gala on March 20 at the San Jose Museum of Art, as the valley leg of the San Francisco International Asian American film opens a weekendlong stand at Camera 12 in San Jose.

After the premiere of David Boyle’s comedy White on Rice (March 20, 7pm), the 27th edition of the festival includes films from assimilated immigrants as well as work from some of the 47 countries.

One promising feature is Tokyo!

(March 21, 9:30pm), with Michel Gondry, Bing Joon-ho and Leos Carax taking three separate views of the city. Ever heard of Patsy Mink?

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (March 21, 12:45pm) studies the life of the intrepid Japanese-American lady from Paia, Maui, as the first congressmember of color (1965); she served 12 terms. Perhaps her most lasting achievement was Title IX, for which all girl jocks must give Mink honor.

The Equation of Love and Death (March 21, 2pm) is Cao Baoping’s story of a cabby (Zhou Xun, from Suzhou River) trying to find her boyfriend. Tze Chun’s Children of Invention (March 21, 4:30pm) concerns the growth industry of squatting, and a brother and sister hiding out in a new development’s model home after they lose their

own home. Half-Life (March 21, 7pm), Jennifer Phang’s Sundance success, watches over a different brother and sister, also holed up: this time in a postapocalyptic suburb.

The selection of shorts from the 3RD I Festival (March 21, 3pm) is extremely weak considering the wealth of talent available. Titles like “Guns” and “Love Story” promise a lack of imagination that the films fulfill with interest. One real standout: Anoar Ahmed’s short Tala (Rhythm), about a young Melbourne girl’s discovery of her mother’s infidelity; it should absolutely be expanded into a feature film.

Heaven on Earth (March 21, 7:15pm) is the newest by Deepa Mehta (Earth, Water, Fire) in which the pressures of a badly arranged marriage are relieved with daydreams and fantasies. On March 22, Whatever It Takes (4:45pm) follows a Chinese-American principal during the first year of a South Bronx High School.

The autumnal college town Morgantown, W.V., is the home for journalist Asra Nomani (author of Standing Alone in Mecca, and a writer for Time and the Wall Street Journal). The documentary The Mosque in Morgantown (March 22, 5:15pm) concerns Nomani’s public participation in what’s called “a war of ideas.” Brittany Huckabee’s film follows the ruckus Nomani made about having to enter the rear of

the local mosque—with the rest of the females—rather than through the green front door. Nomani was a good friend of the ill-fated journalist Daniel Pearl, and she sees sexual segregation as the creeping hand of fundamentalism.

The worshippers’ position on this matter is that this is something that shouldn’t have been made public.

There are of course conservative commentators willing to make hay of the situation: what else can you expect from this repressive religion, etc. Huckabee does an excellent job of giving all sides their say and makes Morgantown a place you might want to visit—even live in.

I see no reason to violate the local media’s policy of going easy on H.P. Mendoza. The maker of Colma! The Musical brings the premiere of his newest musical, Fruit Fly (March 22, 7pm), Fruit Fly follows the Filipino-American Bethesda (L.A. Renigen) as she tries to make it as a performance artist in the Bay Area.

She moves into a San Francisco flat and finds herself immediately dubbed a fag hag, just because she hits the gay bars with her housemates every night. The title is synonymous with “Fag Hag,” a song that is meant to be the movie’s big showstopper, as we can tell from the expensive crane shot.

The eight-bit title theme, done in electronica and punk rock, has more verve, though. Mendoza

certainly uses the environment well, filming on the J-Church tracks and among the Balmy Alley murals.

And Mark Del Lima’s attractive animation shows the city waking up and going to sleep. One lowbudget innovation—a character doing a duet with a video of himself on a laptop—was very innovative, enough that you can overlook Mendoza’s frequent prosceniumarch-heavy, theater-arts-department staging.

What soured me on Fruit Fly was a subplot about an old woman in Bethesda’s building “abusing rent control.” “I’m the reason apartments are so expensive!” she cackles. This is a little thing and perhaps it shouldn’t have stuck in the craw; it’s mere revenge for uncute oldsters taking up valuable real estate that could be used better by more scenesters filling more black-box theaters with more performance art of more people painting with their feet—for such is Bethesda’s act.

Still, it’s weird to see this unfolding of the Pinoy experience in San Francisco—from the International Hotel demonstrations to proRealtor message movies in three generations.

THE INTERNATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL runs March 20–22 in San Jose at Camera 12. See www.asianamericanmedia.org for details.

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New Asian American Film Festival See stories on pages 31 and 32.

Duplicity (PG-13; 125 min.) Clive Owen and Naomi Watts . . . wait, that was last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thriller. In this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thriller, Owen and Julia Roberts play corporate spies involved in worldwide machinations. (Opens Mar 20.)

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ENNIFER PHANGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S debut ďŹ lm, Half-Life (shows March 21 at 7pm), is an Australian-style movie, and I mean that as an obscure compliment.

It features Peter Weirâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style trees semaphoring in the wind and a mix of animation and action reminding one of Sarah Wattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Look Both Ways. The parched Contra Costa County locations look like suburban Australia during the dry season, and overall, Half-Life is in the tradition of the strong-minded, semi-impressionistic women directors down under. All this in addition to the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end-of-the-world mythology; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made friends with the apocalypse in Australia. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the near future, in one of the suburban neighborhoods under the shade of Mt. Diablo. The coastal plains have ďŹ&#x201A;ooded, jets are unable to ďŹ&#x201A;y and the sun is going strange. A four-person mĂŠnage is trying to cope: a widowed mom (Julia Nickson-Soul), her younger, untrustworthy boyfriend and her suicidal daughter Pam (Sanoe Lake, seriously deglammed since Blue Crush) and little brother Tim, who is rapidly ascending into Godhood.

All the end-of-days kerďŹ&#x201A;ufďŹ&#x201A;e seems just like window dressing for Pamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major malfunctions: her hopeless love for a gay male best friend, her missing father and the problem of being â&#x20AC;&#x153;exoticâ&#x20AC;? in a whitebread, evangelical Christian suburb. Half-Life contains a knife-edged joke about an African American teacher trying to get a young Asian student to revisit her boatperson heritage. Taking the sci-ďŹ route is a credible way of ďŹ&#x201A;avoring a brokenhome blues movie. Phangâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who has an excellent eyeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ďŹ gured out a number of thrifty ways to show things falling apart and the center not holding. The movie has nice sour touchesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for example, the father of the gay son warning his boy, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I read in U.S. News and World Report that the human anus is chockfull of E. coli bacteria.â&#x20AC;?

Mixtape 4 the MSG Addict (March 22 at 2:30pm) includes three attempts at horror; four, if you count Yasmine Gomez and Eric du Plessisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sweetly funny monster movie Self-Absorbed. Ning Liâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Still for Nowâ&#x20AC;? contrasts a burgeoning Manhattan affair with a gnawing, crawling creature hiding in the basement of a coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new apartment. Very, very heavy on the David Lynch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Son of Golemâ&#x20AC;? is either a parody of gore-horror, or an inadvertent parody of the same. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better not to have someone making those â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will suck your soul, I will break your bonesâ&#x20AC;? threats unless they have the acting chops for it.

The best entry, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Night,â&#x20AC;? is located in a prime piece of artistic real estate between horror and social satire. In Korea, a doctor promises great success to struggling studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at a very hefty price. Also noteworthy in the shorts program: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Luck Counting Sheepâ&#x20AC;? an inventive satirical rotoscoped fantasia, featuring Dolly the Cloned Ewe and Celine Dion. The uproarious â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Othersâ&#x20AC;? is a kind of tribute to Lou Diamond Phillips. In a craftily edited montage, the Anthony Quinn of our age shows his repertoire of ethnicities, from Navajo to Nanook; by participating in this experimental short, Phillips shows himself not only hard working, but possessed of a good sense of humor.

Plus, thanks to the miracle of editing, he has the ability to play a passionate love scene with himselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;E. coli be damned.

Richard von Busack THE ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL plays March 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;22 at Camera 12 in San Jose. See www.asianamericanmedia.org for details.

Everlasting Moments (Unrated; 131 min.) Maria Heiskanen plays a working-class Finnish mother living in Sweden in the ďŹ rst 20 years of the last century. She settles down with the brutish Sigfrid, called Siggi (Mikael Persbrandt), but is touched by the attentions of Pedersen (Jesper Christensen), who owns a camera

store. Director Jan Troell has a great gift with this period, as he showed in The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972). It took skill not to make this story a temperance melodrama. (Plays at selected theaters.) (RvB) The Great Buck Howard (PG; 87 min.) See review on page 34.

I Love You, Man (R) Not that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything wrong with that, as they put it in the famous homosexual-panic episode of Seinfeld. The sure-to-be hilarious premise ďŹ nds Paul going on â&#x20AC;&#x153;man datesâ&#x20AC;? in order to choose a best man for his wedding. (Opens Mar 20.)

Knowing (PG-13; 122 min.) Nicolas Cage stars in an Alex Proyas ďŹ lm about some dire phrophesies dug up at an elementary school.

(Opens Mar 20.)

The Last House on the Left (R; 110 min.) See review on page 36.

Sunshine Cleaning (R; 102 min.) A comedy masquerading as a drama, or is it the other way around. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a family tale of uplift starring Amy Adams

and Emily Blunt. The title is a direct reference to Little Miss Sunshine, and they loved it at Sundance, so considered yourself warned.

(Opens Mar 20 at selected theaters.)

Tokyo!

(Unrated; 112 min.) A triple bill of surreal stories set in the Japanese capital, and the trio of gaijin directors arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too in love with the place from the evidence here: Michel Gondryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subject is claustrophobia, Leos Caraxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s semi-monster-movie discusses wrath, and Bong Joon Ho takes on the hermeticism that makes Tokyo a city of strangers. Working from Gabrielle Bellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comic Cecil and Jordan in New York, Gondryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Interior Design concerns an indie ďŹ lmmaker and his increasingly dissatisďŹ ed girlfriend, both futon-camping with a salarywoman friend in an inďŹ nitesimal apartment. When the ďŹ lmmaker starts to achieve some small success, the lovelorn girl just becomes part of the furniture. Caraxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Merde is the pick of this litter, a real provocation right from the title to the promised sequel. A Tokyo sewer monster (Denis Lavart) stages gratuitous street attacks and faces Japanese justice for it. Godzilla meets Alfred Jarry in this breezily offensive story of a demon messiah. Bong Joon Hoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shaking Tokyo brings up the rear because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most technically ambitiousâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a J.G. Ballardâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style tale of a person who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave his apartment, until he meets an alluring pizza-deliverer (Aoi Yu). Too cute to leave much impact. (Opens Mar 20 at the Camera Cinemas in San Jose and shows Mar 21 at 9:30pm as part of the Asian American Film Festival.) (RvB) 12 (Unrated; 159 min.) Fulsome, windy and yet somehow strangely interesting. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a stagy palimpsest of the American jury-room drama 12 Angry Men. A Chechen youth is on trial for having knifed a former Russian Army ofďŹ cer.

A soft-spoken electrical engineer, played by Sergei Makovetsky, has his doubts. Director Nikita Mikhalkov adds ďŹ&#x201A;ashbacks to the Chechen war; Sergey Garmash, a Slavic Lee Marvin, is the voice in favor of conviction.

This warhorse plot works no matter how you load it, with aggravation levels rising and burning cigarettes crackling like the fuse on a bomb. (Plays at selected theaters.) (RvB)

Revivals Bride of Frankenstein/The Sin of Nora Moran (1935/1933) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a masterpiece of wild and innovative horror, sometimes seriocomic, sometimes gorgeously strange. Our hero, the fugitive monster (Karloff the Uncanny), becomes the pawn in a psychological game between the reluctant Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his former mentor (Ernest Thesiger). The ďŹ&#x201A;amboyant Thesiger, luring the mad doctor away from his marriage bed back to the subterranean practices he renounced, seems to embody the temptations facing members of the exâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;gay movement.

BILLED WITH The Sin of Nora Moran. In this wild drama, a soon-to-be-executed woman (Zita Johann) waits for a reprieve from the governor, with whom she once had an affair.

(Plays Mar 21-23 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) Death Takes a Holiday/The Black Cat (Both 1934) Fredric March is Death, deciding to take a few days off from his endless rounds; he meets a sweet noble (Evelyn Venable) at a dukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estate. Mitchell Leisen directs this timeless fantasy, remade (risibly) as Meet Joe Black. BILLED WITH The Black Cat. Boris Karloff stars as an Aleister Crowley surrogate who has built a profane temple on a World War I battleground; Bela Lugosi plays a husband on a mission of revenge. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as leanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; 65 minutesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as it is serious. (Plays Mar 19-20 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

DVDs Was the wait for the collectorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edition of The Last House on the Left worth it? Plus The Punisher with a punishing quantity of extras. Read DVD reviews online at www.metroactive.com.

On the Menu

Los Altos legend brings Chinese food to masses p4 Kitty Greenwald makes art out of cooking at Montalvo p15

Spring 2009

A fast guide to Vietnamese grab-and-go snacks p21 The Google chef unveils CalaďŹ a in Palo Alto p25 Sommelier Karen Gessert of Vino100 believes in experimenting p29 Live Feed: Should kids eat like adults? p31

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AWRENCE C.C. Chu can be a hard man to understand at first. It’s not so much that his Mandarin-accented English makes him difficult to follow, it’s the speed with which he speaks. Listening to him is like starting from a standstill and trying to catch up with someone who’s already in a full sprint.

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But after a few moments, one adjusts to the blitzkrieg of words and begins to understand why his restaurant, Chef Chu’s in Los Altos, has become such a landmark of Bay Area dining. Chu is a man who has found his calling and revels in it each day.

“I enjoy talking, and I enjoy cooking. It fits my personality.

A lot of people say I’m hyper. I’m not hyper. I have a lot of energy. Energy is better than hyper. If the energy is gone then the restaurant is gone. It starts at the top,” he says, pointing to himself.

By almost any measure, Chef Chu’s is one of the most successful restaurants in the Bay Area. It serves about 700 people a day and enjoys a loyal clientele of repeat customers.

The restaurant has long been a dinner stop for visiting dignitaries. Photos of Chu with Benazir Bhutto, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, George H.W. Bush, Steve Young, Julio Iglesias and other VIPs hang on the wall of the lobby.

Silicon Valley executives from Hewlett Packard, Intel, Google and elsewhere stop in from nearby offices for kung pao shrimp and Hunan smoked pork on a regular basis.

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Even in the current sorry state of the economy, the restaurant still does a brisk business. The number of dine-in customers is down about 5 to 10 percent, but takeout orders have jumped about 5 percent, so it’s almost a wash. For the past 29 years, the restaurant has put on Chinese New Year banquets, and this year the $80-per-person dinners all sold out as usual.

Most impressive of all in the here-todaygone-tomorrow restaurant world is Chef Chu’s longevity. Next year, the restaurant celebrates its 40th year in business.

Part of the restaurant’s success is due to its central location on the corner of El Camino Real and San Antonio Road and the huge, crowd-pleasing menu, but Chef Chu’s would never have become the roaring success it is without Chef Chu himself. Through willpower, energy and the palpable force of his personality, Chu has created a restaurant that has grown into something much larger. It’s a Bay Area institution.

Chu no longer cooks on a regular basis except for his popular cooking classes, but he’s a constant presence in the kitchen directing his battery of cooks and walking the dining room with the watchful eye and focus of a shark, a shark that stops quickly to shake hands and greet customers, most of whom he’s known for years.

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Chu was ahead of his time by personally identifying himself with his restaurant.

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He has two cookbooks under his belt and plans to publish a third later this year.

But Chu didn’t set out to be a chef. He had aspirations of becoming an architect or a draftsman. He was enrolled in English classes at Oakland City College when he took a part-time job as a busboy at Oakland’s Trader Vic’s.

‘I enjoy talking, and I enjoy cooking. It fits my personality. A lot of people say I’m hyper. I’m not hyper.

I have a lot of energy.

Energy is better than hyper. If the energy is gone then the restaurant is gone. It starts at the top.’

Back then, in the 1960s, Trader Vic’s blend of Polynesian culture, American sensibility and exotic cocktails made it one of the most popular restaurants in the country. Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and other A-listers were regulars. Chu was enthralled by the money and glamour, but he knew that he didn’t want to remain a busboy. He rose through the ranks and became a waiter and bartender and learned the finer points of restaurant service.

Chu’s father owned a restaurant in Menlo Park, the Mandarin House. Chu applied for a job there and convinced his father he could improve the restaurant by applying what he learned at Trader Vic’s.

He taught the front of the house what he knew while he learned how to cook from the restaurant’s master chef.

“I wasn’t a chef. I was a student,” he recalls.

Convinced that he had found his calling in the business, he decided to open his own restaurant. He thought he had a million-dollar idea: a chain of fast-food takeout Chinese restaurants that served just 12 items. In this age of Mr. Chau’s and Panda Express, that hardly sounds novel, but in the late 1960s it was a cutting-edge idea. It wasn’t his last.

“I wanted to have a restaurant on every corner,” he said. “That was my big dream.”

Personal Touch He started the restaurant in 1969 with $5,000, secondhand restaurant equipment and 12 classic Chinese-American dishes like mu shu pork and chicken chow mein.

His idea might have succeeded in another neighborhood, but Los Altos, with its well-traveled, affluent population, proved to be the wrong place for a fastfood joint.

The restaurant fell flat. So Chu talked to his customers and learned what they wanted: a sit-down, family-friendly place that offered reasonably priced food with a bit of cultural education served on the side.

“I listened to my customers. I was able to change.”

Originally, Chu thought he didn’t need a chef, just a good concept of cheap fast food. But in time, he also realized that in order to create the kind of restaurant the public wanted he needed a chef—and that chef needed to be him.

Six months after opening, he changed gears and expanded by taking over a beauty salon next door and offered a broader menu and the kind of fine dining attention to detail he had learned at Trader Vic’s. Shortly after that, restaurant critic Jack Shelton, who published influential reviews to paid subscribers, lauded Chef Chu’s, and the crowds have been coming ever since.

While he considered it, he never opened another restaurant, because he knew he couldn’t be present on a daily basis in more than one place, and without him in his chef ’s jacket and kerchief the restaurant wouldn’t be the same.

“It’s the personal touch that people want,” he explains.

A Way of Life As it is for many people who grew up on the peninsula, eating at Chef Chu’s is a way of life for Scott O’Neil, a utility buyer for the city of Palo Alto. His uncle had a rehearsal dinner at the restaurant in 1979, and he was hooked.

“I’ve been coming ever since,” he says.

“My family has all moved away but I’m still here.” He counts the salt-and-pepper crab and black-pepper steak as two of his favorite dishes.

Carol Dienger goes way back with Chef Chu’s. She has been to 10 of his Chinese New Year banquets and first tasted his cooking back when he worked at Mandarin House. “We’ve been here since day one. . . . He’s playing to the American palate, but he does it with class,” she tells me. “He doesn’t do the same old thing.”

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CHEF CHU 8 In addition to the hundreds of meals his restaurant serves each day, Chef Chu also provides hot lunches to several peninsula elementary and middle schools once a week. He says he loses money on the deal, but he does it as part of his spirit of community service and to help cultivate the next generation of Chef Chu’s customers. McDonald’s must envy his access to young minds and stomachs.

Chu is also a co-founder of the Asian Chefs Association (ASA), a professional and philanthropic organization. He’s headed to Taiwan this summer to advise the U.S. team in competition against Asian cooks from around the world.

“I’m the oldest member but I’m the one who gets the most excited,” he says ASA co-founder Christopher Yeo wouldn’t dispute that. Yeo owns the modern Chinese restaurant Sino in San Jose, and Straits, a string of Singaporean restaurants in the Bay Area.

“Chef Chu is very dynamic and passionate about what he does,” Yeo says.

“He loves what he does, and it shows. I hope I have the same longevity as him.”

Purists might gripe that Chef Chu’s is not sufficiently authentic or is Chinese food watered down for American tastes. In some ways, that’s true. Many of the dishes on the menu are sweet and fried and designed to appeal to American tastes. But Chu is unapologetic about his restaurant’s food. He says he simply takes popular dishes and refines and updates them to make them his own.

“I didn’t create it,” he says. “They created it.”

They are the American public who made egg rolls, sweet and sour pork and General Tso’s chicken American standards that rank up there with apple pie and hot dogs.

Chef Chu’s is both a reflection of American tastes and a reinterpretation of them.

While there are many standards on the menu (such as the hot-and-sour soup and mu shu pork) that have remained the same for years, once a year or so he add new dishes to the menu. He offers a prize for any cook who comes up with a new dish he likes.

Chef Chu’s Famous Shredded Chicken Salad From Chef Chu’s “Quick, Healthy, Simple, Delicious: Chef Chu’s Distinctive Cuisine of China” (1996)

Ingredients 1 /2 broiler/fryer chicken (about 1 1/2 pounds)

cornstarch 4 cups vegetable oil for frying 2 ounces rice sticks, broken into sections 1 tablespoon hot powdered mustard 1 tablespoon water 1 tablespoon sesame oil 1

/2 head iceberg lettuce, chopped

10–12 sprigs fresh cilantro 1 green onion, sliced 1

/2 teaspoon Chinese five spice

2 tablespoons crushed roasted peanuts 1 teaspoon toasted sesame seed

Preparation TO STEAM

1. Rinse chicken under cold water; drain well, pat dry and dust with cornstarch.

2. Places chicken on a steaming rack; cover and steam 10 minutes.

Remove and cool.

TO DEEP FRY

1. Heat oil in a wok to 350 degrees or until shimmering but not smoking.

2. Add rice sticks in two batches and deep fry for a few seconds until rice puffs. Remove and set aside.

3. Return temperature to 350 degrees.

Add chicken and deep fry until golden brown. Remove and set aside.

PREPARE SAUCE

1. Combine mustard with water; then stir in sesame oil.

TO ASSEMBLE

Local Tastes Chu’s menu bounces all over China, reflecting his moves around China as a child. He was born in Szechuan province in the industrial city of Chongqing, but moved to Shanghai when he was 2. His father was a palace designer and architect.

When he was 5, his family moved to Taiwan, part of the exodus of mainland Chinese fleeing Mao’s communist government. He was too young to enjoy the culinary offerings of pre-revolutionary Szechuan, but Taiwan sparked his interest in food.

Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, is one of the world’s great food cities, especially known for its “night markets,” where the whole 12

1. Remove bone but not skin from warm chicken and shred meat by hand or with a cleaver.

2. Place shredded chicken in one side of a bowl and hot mustard sauce on the other.

3. Break cilantro into pieces, twisting stems over lettuce to catch juices.

Drop parsley and green onion on lettuce, then mix chicken thoroughly with mustard sauce.

4. Sprinkle five spice powder over entire mixture before tossing chicken with lettuce.

5. Combine peanuts with sesame seed and half of rice sticks; crush lightly.

6. Sprinkle over top and serve with remaining rice sticks on the side.

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CHEF CHU 11 city comes out to escape the heat at night and eat from countless outdoor food stalls.

“That’s how I developed my palate and love for food,” he recalls.

His love for food expanded further when he moved to Hong Kong at age 15. There he experienced the culinary openness and experimentation and the East-meets-West style of the city’s food culture that would define his restaurant years later.

It’s best to think of Chef Chu’s as an American restaurant that serves Chinese food.

‘As long as I have hair on my head I’ll be here. . . . What else would I do? Golf? Go drinking. I don’t want to be that person.

This is what I love to do. . . .The restaurant business is not for ordinary people. It’s for people who have a passion.’

In New York Times writer Jennifer 8 Lee’s book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, she reconciles her Chinese-American upbringing and the Americanized Chinese food she grew with in New York City with the “real” Chinese food she was shocked to encounter in China. She quotes the co-owner of a Chinese restaurant in Texas who explains that the driving force behind Chinese cooking is the desire to adapt and incorporate indigenous ingredients and use Chinese cooking techniques.

“Chinese cooking is not a set of dishes,” she concludes. “It is a philosophy that serves local tastes and ingredients.”

That defines exactly what Chu has been doing. With more than 40,000 Chinese restaurants in America—more than McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chickens and Burger Kings combined—Chinese food long ago ceased to be ethnic food, because it’s been so thoroughly incorporated into American culture.

“We come here to cook for you, not cook for me,” Chu says emphatically.

Chef Chu’s menu is encyclopedic and offers something for the senior citizen who sat next to me on one occasion and asked for “tomatoes and beef over rice” and for

more adventurous eaters willing to delve into spicy Szechuan dishes and pickled mustard green and pork soup.

One of Chef Chu’s best-known dishes is Chinese chicken salad. The restaurant typically has 23 cooks working in the kitchen, a staggering number that tells you something about the manpower needed to keep the high-volume restaurant running. One of those cook’s sole task is making the Chinese chicken salad. The salad, a refreshing blend of iceberg lettuce, skinless fried chicken, ground peanuts and rice noodles in a hot mustard–sesame oil dressing, is as good as ever.

Chef Chu’s Chinese New Year banquets give him and his chefs a chance to stretch and offer dishes not found on the menu, dishes that verge on challenging but are still accessible to the restaurant’s largely Caucasian clientele. This year, the menu featured a ninecourse meal that included braised ox tail in commemoration of the year of the ox, whole roast suckling pig, kabocha squash bisque with a lobster-and-shrimp-filled eggroll, and whole fried rock cod.

The event felt like a high school reunion for a class of graying schoolmates. They enjoyed seeing each other but liked Chu’s cooking even more. Chef Chu’s has had a long relationship with local wineries, and the banquet was paired with wines from Ridge Vineyards.

“Ridge is kind of an institution in the South Bay and Chef Chu’s is too, so I think it’s an appropriate pairing,” said Mark Vernon, Ridge’s chief operating officer, as he introduced the wines for the banquet.

At this point, you might expect me to say that after nearly 40 years in business Chu shows no signs of slowing down. It’s a cliché, but like most clichés it happens to be true. Chu has no plans to retire.

“As long as I have hair on my head I’ll be here. . . . What else would I do? Golf ?

Go drinking. I don’t want to be that person. This is what I love to do. . . . The restaurant business is not for ordinary people. It’s for people who have a passion.”

Chef Chu has been proving that on a daily basis for four decades. None of Chu’s four children worked in the restaurant growing up, but his daughter and son now work with him. His son Larry Jr. is general manager of the restaurant. He decided to join his father 10 years ago to ensure that the family business keeps going.

“I thought it would be sad if Los Altos didn’t have a Chef Chu’s,” he said.

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Chef Chu’s Address: 1067 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos Phone: 650.948.2696 Hours: Open 11:30am–9:30pm Mon–Fri and noon–10pm Sat–Sun

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Kitchen As the culinary artistin-residence at Montalvo Arts Center, Kitty Greenwald practices cooking as an art form

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T IS dinnertime at the Montalvo Arts Center in the Saratoga hills, and the aroma of roasting lamb and rosemary ďŹ lls the large, utilitarian kitchen. Fresh bread, radishes and sea-salt-sprinkled butter are spread on the chopping block island next to a chocolate terrine just pulled from the oven.

Kitty Greenwald takes a sip of wine and tosses house-made olives and freshly shelled beans for a salad and then spreads a thick caramel sauce on the dessert while the Pogues and Wilco play from tinny iPod speakers near a stack of cookbooks.

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KITTY GREENWALD 15 Soon some of Montalvo’s artists-inresidence wander in to see what’s cooking and offer to help set the long communal table where they gather for evening meals. An easy, end-of-the-day vibe fills the kitchen as everyone relaxes and looks forward to dinner. Everyone, that is, except for Greenwald.

She fears that her leg of lamb is too dry and that the salad is too salty. Although she cooks all the meals for the Montalvo artists, she is not just a cook. Like the filmmakers, musicians, painters and other artists who spend time in residency at Montalvo, Greenwald is an artist-inresidence, too. Only instead of painting or music, her medium is food, and she’s an exacting self-critic. (For the record, the lamb and salad were delicious and devoured by everyone.)

The culinary program was conceived as a way to offer emerging chefs a chance to hone their skills in a residency setting and places cooks on the same level as other artists in Montalvo’s residency program Greenwald, 29, is Montalvo’s culinary fellow. She cooks for the residents, puts on special events, tends a vegetable garden and makes forays to local stores and farmers markets to shop. The 12-monthculinary fellowship program is the only one of its kind in the country and is now in its sixth year. The culinary fellows play a practical role in that they feed the artists, but they also gain experience running a kitchen and managing a budget while pursuing their own culinary interests and passions in a beautiful setting.

“I’ve never been afforded such supportive luxury,” Greenwald says.

She is especially fond of the small garden that she tends with the help of volunteers and staff. The program encourages its culinary fellows to source their food locally and build menus around

seasonal, sustainably produced ingredients.

“It’s wonderful playing in the kitchen with what comes up in the garden,” she comments.

The culinary program was conceived as a way to offer emerging chefs a chance to hone their skills in a residency setting and places cooks on the same level as other artists in Montalvo’s residency program.

Established in 1939, the artist residency program is the oldest on the West Coast and the third oldest in the United States.

For six decades the program was housed in Montalvo’s statuesque Mediterranean villa and three nearby cottages, but in 2004 the residency moved the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program into 10 modern, self-contained live-work studios nestled on a hillside above a seasonal creek.

In additional to the freedom to roam around an artists’ colony tucked into the Saratoga foothills, residents are offered performance and exhibition space on the Montalvo grounds as well as in Bay Area and national and international locations.

Dinners are served five nights a week and in the residency programs’ communal building The culinary program has drawn aspiring chefs from all over—Italy, Venezuela, Israel, England and the United States. While most residency programs at Montalvo last three months, the culinary residency program spans a full year and creates a sense of continuity for the other artists as they come and go.

Kelly Sicat, Montalvo’s director of programs, says that other artist colonies are interested in the culinary residency: “I know people are watching to see how it develops.”

Culinary fellows must be recommended by the program’s advisory committee, a panel that includes such big names in the food world such Alice Waters, author Michael Pollan and Jessie Cool, owner of Menlo Park’s Flea Street Café and other Silicon Valley restaurants.

In addition to being nominated, Greenwald had to prepare a demonstration dinner for the committee, a meal that included a roasted beet and arugula salad, poached cod with a lemon verbena broth, black-eyed peas and a lime-apple sorbet.

Apparently, the committee liked what they ate. Greenwald has been in residence at Montalvo since October.

Greenwald, who is originally from Washington, D.C., was involved in making documentaries when she started catering on the side. She discovered she enjoyed making food more than making films, so she decided to launch into cooking full time. She had no formal training but threw herself her culinary education and traveled to Europe where she cooked in Italy, Portugal and France. She developed a particular interest in pastry and started a 18

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KITTY GREENWALD 16 food column in Portugal.

But after 2 1/2 years abroad, she decided it was time to come back to the United States. Soon after, she learned about the Montalvo culinary program.

“It’s a nice place to be cooking again,” she says. “It gives me a certain amount of freedom to learn the skills I need and to get better.”

She had no formal training but threw herself her culinary education and traveled to Europe where she cooked in Italy, Portugal and France. She developed a particular interest in pastry and started a food column in Portugal.

It’s a pretty sweet gig, but the culinary fellows arguably have it tougher than the other residents. While performance and visual artists often collaborate on their work with other fellows and occasionally let others see what they’re working on, Greenwald’s work is on display five times a week. But the fellows can tailor their residency to suit their interests, and hers have taken her into recipe development and high-profile, off-site food events like last year’s Slow Food Nation.

She says that some nights what she prepares is just dinner, while other meals are more inspired. It’s a tricky balance. She must serve her fellow fellows dinner, but she’s also motivated to explore her own interests. Ultimately, she says she cooks to please herself.

“I think I have a tougher skin than I used to,” Greenwald says. “If I screw up [a meal], then it’s OK. If I worried more about that, this fellowship would feel very small. In general, it’s allowed me to do what I want, and it’s up to the residents if they want to enjoy it.” M

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OLLAR for dollar, Vietnamese food is one of the best deals around. A big bowl of pho or bun bo hue will only set you back $7 or $8. Even cheaper are banh mi, Vietnamese sandwiches that go for about $2. But banh mi shops offer other kinds of cheap eats that are often delicious but probably go untried by most non-Vietnamese because it’s hard to figure out what the hell they are.

These grab-and-go snacks are known collectively as “an choi” and are great for a quick breakfast or lunch because they’re pre-made, highly portable and loaded with carbohydrates for quick energy.

In addition to being cheap and good, many of these snacks are beautiful to look at, too. But for the uninitiated, they’re like the proverbial box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.

Twenty-two-year-old Dakao in downtown San Jose has been feeding starving SJSU students and other aficionados of cheap Vietnamese food for years with its banh mi, rice plates and other Vietnamese standards. The restaurant is also one of Silicon Valley’s premier sources for an choi.

inside, but many are inscrutable rice balls and banana leaf–wrapped mysteries.

Most of these snacks fall into one of four categories: “banh,” “xoi,” “che” and “cha.” Banh means cake, and in this case the cakes are made from rice flour, sticky rice, tapioca flour or wheat flour. Xoi (pronounced “soy”) simply means sticky rice, and these snacks generally combine rice with fruit or fruit pastes, coconut milk and sweetened ground peanuts. Che (pronounced “chay-ah,” with a down note on the “ah”) means dessert, and these treats are usually served in clear plastic cups filled with a creamy, coconut-milk base and flavored with fruit and tapioca, taro or rice balls. They’re pretty easy to figure out because you can see what they consist of. Cha means sausage.

When it comes to ordering, pointing and asking “What’s this?” and “What’s that?” can be hard because of language barriers. So here, then, is a quick guide to some of the most popular and commonly available Vietnamese snack foods. Think of this as an edible glossary. (I compiled this list from Dakao, but most Silicon Valley banh mi restaurants will have many of these same items, although sometimes in slightly different forms.)

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Dakao’s front counter is crowded with a staggering array of the cellophane-wrapped treats and snacks. Some of the items like barbecue pork over rice or shrimp spring rolls are self-evident because you can see what’s

Che xoi khoai mon Sweetened coconut

ground pork and a boiled egg. Think of them as a Vietnamese version of an Egg McMuffin.

Best when heated slightly before eating.

3 Banh bay This silken, rubbery little patty is made with rice flour and filled with a layer of pressed pork.

4 Banh bo Chunks of white sticky rice and coconut milk that have been fermented slightly to give them a pleasing sweet tang.

10 Cha lua Wrapped in banana leaves or aluminum foil, this is a super burrito-size log of steamed pork sausage.

Banh cam Vietnamese donut holes made

11 Banh Hue Thin pork sausage wrapped in banana leaves that’s a smaller version of cha lua.

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with wheat flour and covered with caramelized sugar and sesame seeds. They often have a filling like sweet mung bean paste. Very good.

6 Banh chuoi This banana-based snack takes two forms: as a kind of thick gelatinous banana cake, or cooked with sticky rice, coconut milk and sweet red beans and wrapped mummy-style in banana or coconut leaves. Both are quite good.

7 Banh gio These distinctive, pyramidshaped snacks are wrapped in banana leaves and made with steamed rice flour filled with savory ingredients like ground pork and mushroom. Banh it looks just like banh gio but is generally filled with sweet ingredients like fruit and beans.

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Banh bao Looking like giant dumplings,

these steamed wheat-flour rolls are generally filled with savory ingredients like sausage,

in banana leaves and tied with red string that is something of a Vietnamese sushi roll, only it’s made with sticky rice, sweet red beans and bananas. It can be made with savory ingredients, too. This is traditionally served during Vietnamese new year celebrations. The square version is called banh chung and comes from north Vietnam.

Banh khuc Sticky rice filled with a

hamlike purée formed into a plump disc.

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12 Xoi banh phong This is a thin rice crepe filled with sticky rice and sweet fruit pastes.

13 Xoi ladua Sticky rice with sweet mung bean paste. It tastes better than it sounds.

14 Xoi nep than Literally “sticky charcoal grain rice,” this snack is made with beautiful black grain rice and sweetened mung bean paste.

(Thanks to Hanna Pham, owner of 19 Market restaurant in San Jose, for help with translations)

Dakao Address: 98 E. San Salvador, San Jose Phone: 408.286.7260 Hours: 6am–9pm Mon–Sat, and 6am–8pm Sun

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S Google continues to gobble up tech companies and roll out new products in its quest for global information domination, the company has managed to maintain a positive public image. Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s halo will probably fall off one day, and the company will join the ranks of Microsoft and IBM as a big bad technology corporation, but for now Google is still cool. I would argue that one of the reasons behind Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s benign public persona is former employee Charlie Ayers. Ayers wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an executive or even a techie. He was Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst chef. His eclectic, healthy food helped keep employees on campus and made them the envy of the Dockers and ID badge set.

Ayers, who was once the cook for the postâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead, generated great publicity for Google as a progressive, forward-thinking corporation by dispelling the notion that cafeterias have to serve slop.

He left Google in 2005 after six years. Since then, he has been working on opening a restaurant that offered the public the same kind of food once enjoyed by Google employees: healthconscious, sustainably sourced good food served in a hurry. And he did want to make it affordable.

After four years and a few false starts, CalaďŹ a Cafe and Market A Go-Go opened in Palo Alto two

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months ago in the Town and Country shopping center. The restaurant combines elements of the fast-food world and the labor-intensive slow cooking of more high-end restaurants.

Ayers says there are people working in the kitchen 22 hours a day because they make everything themselves from bread to soda pop to ketchup.

In his quest to open his restaurant, Ayers traveled around the world to see how other cultures make fast but high-quality food. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really took that [idea to heart],â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How could I offer slow foods in a quick environment? . . . That was something I was trying to practice all along at Google.â&#x20AC;? As a result, CalaďŹ aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu contains tacos, rice bowls and noodle dishes made with premium, often organic, ingredients. The rest of the menu is a combination of comfort food like turkey meat loaf and short ribs, quick bites and vegetable-driven dishes like veggie burgers, stir-fried greens and fresh salads.

Ayers calls his concept â&#x20AC;&#x153;slow food fastâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;good-to-eat and good-for-you food that he hopes will appeal to Silicon Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frenetic, too-busy-toeat pace of life. After my three visits, I would say he has hit the mark.

The food is affordable and often quite good. The crowds hark back to the pre-recession days when people still had extra money to spend. The dining room is warm and inviting

and in full view of the open kitchen.

A big communal table lighted by a chandelier made from old milk bottles greets you as you walk in. The place gets noisy, but the old timber planks above the dining room help soften the din. Opposite the dining room is a long bar and a takeout market with pre-made food and made-to-order sandwiches that features self-checkout registers for the time-pressed.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot to recommend.

CalaďŹ a makes a number of thin-crust, creatively topped pizzas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wolfgangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizzaâ&#x20AC;? ($11) pays homage to pizza innovator Wolfgang Puck and is topped with shredded duck-leg meat, pumpkin-seed pesto, mozzarella and goat cheese. The crust is crisp but light, and the toppings are applied judiciously. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ ery bottom BBQ pork rice ($10.75) bowlâ&#x20AC;? riffs off Korean rice dishes and combines shredded pork in a sweetish barbecue sauce, with brown rice, spinach and roasted yams with a fried quail egg on top. Mix it all up and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a delicious, satisfying mess.

The ďŹ ve-spice chicken ďŹ deo ($9) is another winnerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;chunks of chicken and vermicelli noodles in a soupy broth enlivened with mint, basil, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes.

The dinner menu offers more substantial fare for a slower-paced meal. The sous vide beef short ribs ($17) are wonderfully tender and

glisten with a thick, rich glaze. The roasted mahogany salmon ($15) is sustainably farmed in Scotland and perfectly executed.

Not everything succeeds. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a fan of spicy food, but the â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ ery chicken drummettesâ&#x20AC;? ($8) are just too hot and obliterate the Pt. Reyes blue cheese sauce served with them. The wontonlike duck dumplings ($9) taste freshly made but ďŹ&#x201A;avorwise are unremarkable. And while I applaud the fact that the patties are made inhouse, the baked veggie burger ($9) tasted like a disk of tofu with some vegetable added in. But I have no complaints about the great garlicky, shoestring french fries with spicy house-made ketchup on the side.

Desserts like the chocolate tapioca pudding ($7.50) and lemon tart ($8) will satisfy your sweet tooth, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re nothing special. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a small but appealing wine and beer list as well as cocktails made with soju instead of stronger stuff. Check out the excellent house-made sodas like the ginger ale made with agave syrup ($3).

Ayers says he want to open other restaurants and spread his concept of â&#x20AC;&#x153;slow food fast.â&#x20AC;? San Francisco airport and Santana Row are possibilities.

The last thing the world needs is another fast-food chain, but CalaďŹ a is charting a new, more delicious course thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth supportingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and eating.

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The next question out of Gessertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mouth is likely to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;What do you like?â&#x20AC;? To her, the top-down approach to wine pairingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;traditionally a mineďŹ eld of â&#x20AC;&#x153;thou shaltsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;thou shalt notsâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;is outdated. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teaching a course on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Food and Wine Pairing Basicsâ&#x20AC;? on Saturday, March 21. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the number one mistake people make is that they pair what they think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supposed to pair, vs. something they like,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Truth be told, the years of white wineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ironclad rule over white proteins and pinot noirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death grip on mushroom dishes with chicken are long since over. Innovative pairings are commonplace in the wine world, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken longer for that progress to trickle down into the public consciousness, which is cluttered by a list of half-forgotten rules and regs. Gessert wants to inspire wine lovers to experimentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK to play,â&#x20AC;? as she says. However, no dinner guest wants their host to be vinticulturally running willynilly through all the regions of France when it just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work with the dishes. There is a safe and sane way to proceed, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the Vino100 class will focus on.

Gessert will focus mainly on six of the most useful varietals to talk about in this area: cab, chardonnay, pinot noir, pinot grigio, sauvignon blanc and merlot. But sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also talk about tempranillo, syrah, sangiovese, mencia and other grapes. And there will be lots of tasting and other practical applications. The class is geared toward beginners and intermediate-level enthusiasts, with an emphasis on accessibility.

Gessert knows that on the pairing issue, many people are intimidated at restaurants or when talking to a sommelier. After this class, hopefully, never again.

Steve Palopoli FOOD AND WINE PAIRING BASICS will be held Saturday, March 21, from 1 to 3:30pm at Vino100 Los Altos, 163 Main St., Los Altos. Cost is $75; call 650.559.8466.

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EARS AGO, I watched well-meaning friends start out trying to feed their kids healthy and fresh food only to see them crumble in the face of tantrums and hunger strikes. In the end, they gave in and served the foods of least resistance: macaroni and cheese, quesadillas and dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets from Costco.

When I had kids, I told myself back then, it would be different.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an omnivore, and I expected my offspring to be the same way. I would make homecooked meals and expose them to a variety of cuisines and cultures. Twinkies and soda pop would never be welcome in my kitchen. My kids would eat what my wife and I ate, and if they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it, too bad. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get another chance to eat at the next meal.

So when my son was born four years ago, I felt pretty smug when I took him out to his ďŹ rst restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an Afghan place in Fremont. True, he was only 3 months old and just drank his bottle, but somehow I expected the experience of dining out in an exotic restaurant would predispose him to a lifetime of culinary adventure. For a while, my plan seemed to be working. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d regale friends with lists of the foods he had eatenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;raw oysters, asparagus, sardines, broccoli, guacamole. I was so proud. But then something happened.

My little gourmet started to become a food critic in his own right, only he started criticizing everything I made for him. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t supposed to be this way. I tried to be ďŹ rm and tell him that if he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like his roasted Brussels sprouts or pad thai he would go hungry. But his pleas and whines proved too much for me, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get up from the table and throw together a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or scrambled egg burrito. It got to the point where one day I had to admit that the only food he would reliably eat was mac â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cheese. I felt like a failure. Where did I go wrong?

In time, I regrouped and plotted a new strategy. I would involve him in the preparation of meals to get him interested in more foods. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take him shopping to select the ingredients for our meals (while studiously avoiding the macaroni and cheese aisle), and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take the pressure off. If he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to eat, ďŹ ne. If he did eat, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a big deal about that either.

My new approach is working. Sort of. He still turns up his nose at a lot of foods and holds out for the starchy and cheesy stuff, but as I try to lower my expectations and anxiety about his diet he seems relaxed about eating, too. The last thing I want to do is instill some kind of eating disorder.

Last month The New York Times reported that parents who preach to their children about the dangers of high-fructose corn syrup and trans fats as they thrust organically grown vegetables at them may be doing more harm than good. The articles cites Lisa Dorfman, a registered dietitian and the director of sports nutrition and performance at the University of Miami, who says that she often sees children terriďŹ ed of foods that are deemed â&#x20AC;&#x153;badâ&#x20AC;? by their parents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost a fear of dying, a fear of illness, like a delusional view of foods in general,â&#x20AC;? sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quoted as saying. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see kids whose parents have hypnotized them. I have 5-year-olds that speak like 40-year-olds. They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat an Oreo cookie without being concerned about trans fats.â&#x20AC;?

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be like that. I want my son to enjoy food as much as I do, but more than that I want him to decide for himself what he likes and dislikes. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to continue cooking healthy food and shopping at the farmers market. Maybe some of that will rub off on him. Or maybe not. But as long as he takes a few bites of veggies now and then Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll let him have the occasional bowl of mac â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cheese. That way we can both get more enjoyment out of sitting down to dinner together.

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HIS IS THE kind of curdled swank that has the male lead, Clive Owen, acting like Cary Grant against a lead female character named Stenwick (pronounced â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stanwyckâ&#x20AC;?). Sadly, the pulseless and circuitous Duplicity isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be bringing back the golden age of movies. It tries to recall the 1960s slice-of-cake with split-screen, harpsichord music, treacherous lovers and exotic locations; viewers are hustled through the postcard ops with such speed that they would be better off with Rick Steves. Director/writer Tony Gilroy adds some modern convoluted storytelling. From the main plot, the ďŹ lm ďŹ&#x201A;ashes back to the two espionage-loving lovers doing different jobs over the course of their ďŹ ve-year-affair. They are professionals, whose job it is to trick each other and the rest of the world.

The game begins in Dubai on the July 4, 2003. MI6 agent Ray (Owen) thinks that he has landed a smooth pickup, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knocked cold for 16 hours: Claire (Julia Roberts) slips him a champagne Mickey. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to us, as the old joke about the countess on the ocean liner goes, whether this tryst constituted a proper introduction. In 2008, Ray and Claireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;still feudingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; now are working together for a cosmetics company, safeguarding the interests of a savage underdog named Garsik (Paul Giamatti), who is nipping at the heels of a rival corporation. In slo-mo, we see the one time it got violent between Garsik and his nemesis Tully (Tom Wilkinson). The two of them ďŹ ght like wrestlers between the muzzles of a brace of parked corporate jets.

At the end of the day, one needs someone to root for. And the cutting to international sleepovers still keeps this movie under-MacGufďŹ ned. The old Cold War movie, with its idea of bad American cats who were as bad as the rats in Moscow, always had an undertone of public service. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to recall that acrid mood when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dealing with a pair of corporations dedicated to screwing each other. (Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that things have changed so much in the last six months; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re less likely to applaud underhanded corporate bastardry in 2009.)

As far as love of craft is concerned, one employee, Pam (Kathleen Chalfant), steals the show; her cleverness in scanning the places where the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MacGufďŹ n is hidden shows a love of craft. Since the business side of the equation isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very interesting, Gilroy hopes that we will be dedicated to the chic lovers and their proposition: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody trusts anybody; we just cop to it.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here that the would-be wickedness breaks down. Roberts has a strange aura of displeasure. She is probably trying to do Eva Marie Saintâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Kendall in North by Northwest, with less WASP politeness. At just over 40, Roberts is still young. In the much-advertised love scenes (thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hive of publicists you hear buzzing), the ďŹ&#x201A;esh of her back looks soft and well cared for. But something, perhaps plastic surgery or Botox, has given her an ominous mask.

Owenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s undoubted masculinity is undimmed, but he gets peevish when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dealing with Claireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chilly trickery. Despite the risquĂŠ linesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Claire asks Ray, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What did you have in mind, in terms of vengeance?â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;it seems like all talk and no action. Duplicity is in the water, deadwise; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sterile offspring of Last Year at Marienbad and Charade.

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T IS more than just the ďŹ nal title cardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a shoutout to the Amazing Kreskinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that gives The Great Buck Howard a tang of autobiography.

This movie is basically just a lot of incidents, but they sound authentic.

Sean McGinlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minor but appealing comedy has a strong spine in the form of John Malkovich, here with oily toupee, well-worn tux, capped-looking teeth and indeterminate sexuality. The grand Malkovich is Buck Howard, a mentalist who playsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as he puts itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;400 shows a year.â&#x20AC;? The story goes that Howard had 60 appearances on the Carson show but never a subsequent nibble from â&#x20AC;&#x153;that nitwit Jay Leno.â&#x20AC;? The details of show-business monstrosity seem knowing; take Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision of whether a person is important enough to get a color (vs. a black-and-white) 8-by-10 photo or his insistence on the importance of just the right bottle of water in the dressing room: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distilled water. I am not an iron. I drink spring water.â&#x20AC;?

Colin Hanks plays a law school dropout with some vague notions of being a writer; he is scooped up to be part of the entourage of the Great Buck Howard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know you have aspirations; I can give you life experience,â&#x20AC;?

Howard promises. On the road from BakersďŹ eld to Akron, the ageless performer puts him through it, even as the few remaining audiences dwindle. Emily Blunt plays a sass-heavy press agent who turns out to be the perk of Troyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not so sure what she saw in Troy. Hanks is every inch the lightweight scion, with the quick smile and proďŹ le of his father. Tom Hanks himself comes in for a few scenes to play Troyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disapproving dad. The ďŹ lm is stuffed with familiar faces, from Patrick Fischler (funnyman Jimmy Barrett on Mad Men) as a Vegas type to a quick glimpse of sound-effects whiz Michael Winslow of the Police Academy movies. Real-life talk show hosts from Jon to Martha Stewart endure Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark glad-hand handshake, a vigorous wrenching like a farmer trying to start a frozen pump.

Among the cast, I was sorriest to lose Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Adam Scott, who drops out early. Scott, who plays a seething assistant, really brings a ton of wrath into his comedy; usually the young actors arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t brave enough to go that aggressive. Probably the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest laugh comes watching this diabolical punk ogling a fat ladyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milkshake as she totters down a hallway (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best part of my job,â&#x20AC;? he says later). Scott really has the most horrid smirk this side of the British Isles. Two songs by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah add to the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s melancholy good-guy mood, but ďŹ lm wanders in its last quarter for an upbeating that beats the movie up. The ďŹ lm has to have it both ways; Howard is important enough to be skewered in Entertainment Weekly, but he also canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy a thrill with the local news media. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hasbeen, but he has the hypnotic power to put a room into a cataleptic trance.

Unfortunately, no one has been able to come up with a third act for this kind of movie, which alternates between adoring the hypnotic shine of the glitter and denouncing the difďŹ cult personalities of the people who wear it.

Richard von Busack THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD (PG; 87 min.), directed and written by Sean McGinley, photographed by Tak Fujimoto and starring John Malkovich and Colin Hanks, opens March 20 at Camera 7 in Campbell.

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HE NEW REMAKE of The Last House on the Left has no guts. That’s not a put-down, just a statement of fact. Back in 1972, director Wes Craven packed his debut film with every shock he and producer Sean Cunningham (later of the Friday the 13th films) thought they could get away with: rape, gruesome murders, carved bodies, forced lesbian sex, oral castration and an infamous scene in which the gang of criminals assaulting two teenage girls actually pull the insides of one of them out. This scene was cut from most prints of the film, but released on DVD. The original is disturbing, to say the least—even Craven himself has quasi-disowned the violence in it. And yet, it endures as a cult classic not just because of its notoriety (although that certainly didn’t hurt), but because aside from some unfortunate comic relief scenes, it’s actually an excellent film. Based on Bergman’s Virgin Spring, it questions whether, when forced into the most extreme circumstances, there is really much difference between the most wretched criminals and the most civilized suburbanites. Eventually, the movie suggests, we all resort to a primal rage.

The remake is not about the same things. It may seem like it from the advertising, especially the ridiculous tag line “If bad people hurt someone you love, how far would you go to hurt them?” Uh, could you repeat the question? It sounds like one of those word problems where a train is leaving Chicago with 5,000 pounds of bluefish. But this is not a shock film, it’s not an exploitation flick, it’s not even really a horror film. It’s just a very 21st-century thriller with some nasty concepts held over from the original. The plot is basically the same: Krug (Garret Dillahunt) and his criminal family kidnap Mari (Sara Paxton) and Paige (Martha MacIsaac); rape, stab and shoot them; then by coincidence end up at the home of Mari’s parents looking for a place to spend the night. It’s not hard to imagine the shenanigans that ensue.

But this time, everything seems oddly logical. Everyone has a reason for doing what they’re doing, even if it’s an evil one: the criminals seem like they might let Mari and Paige go, but then Mari tries to escape. The parents don’t start taking out the perps for revenge purposes, they do it because they’re trying to save someone’s life. (Whether they derive pleasure from it is another question.) It’s all sort of civilized, really, and even though the attack scenes against the girls are vicious, they’re not even remotely on the level of the original. Strangely, none of this makes the new Last House a bad film, just a very different one. It can’t touch the power of Craven’s film, and it doesn’t have the same subversive subtext, not to mention that it doesn’t have the incomparable David Hess, the original Krug. But as a slick Hollywood Bthriller, it’s pretty watchable—a quality squeamish viewers would still not ascribe to the original film.

Steve Palopoli

© 2009 SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (R; 100 min.), directed by Dennis Iliads, written by Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth, photographed Sharone Meir and starring Garret Dillahunt and Sara Paxton, plays valleywide.

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Laughs on The Fly Five rules for creating an improvcomedy dynasty from Ryan Stiles of ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’

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SIDE FROM the ShamWow guy, Ryan Stiles is probably the most famous weird-looking man on TV. After doing standup in Vancouver and Second City in Toronto, he became a regular on the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? in the early ’90s. He broke into American TV with a regular role on The Drew Carey Show, but it was when the American version of Whose Line became a bona fide cultural phenomenon that Stiles’ gangly looks and human-spring comic sensibility went center stage.

For eight seasons, all one had to do was say “that tall guy on TV,” and it was understood.

However, Stiles wasn’t interested in celebrity. He prefers an ensemble, and even after Whose Line’s run finally ended a few years ago, he hasn’t wanted to give it up. He and three other regulars from the show—Greg Proops, Chip Esten and Jeff B. Davis—are touring an improv stage show called Whose Live Anyway?, which comes to Flint Center on Friday. Meanwhile, two other former stars of the show, Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, tour a similar but differently monikered live improv

show. Still on TV in what seems like constant reruns, the show that brought improv to mainstream popculture has become a franchise that shows no signs of waning. How has it endured? Taking a break from his recurring role on Two and a Half Men, Stiles let slip some secrets by phone. &# 8DC;JH: :K:GNDC:/ It’s almost hard to remember how improv comedy was perceived by mass audiences pre–Whose Line—mostly not at all is perhaps the best way to sum it up. So when Whose Line got big, the mainstream didn’t know what to do. The show was first nominated for an Emmy in the game show category, competing with The Price Is Right—apparently all those jokes about how the points didn’t matter were in vain. And when Stiles was subsequently nominated for an Emmy , it was in the category of “Best Performance in a Comedy or Musical Special.” His competition?

Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand and Sting.

“That’s one of the reasons I didn’t go to the Emmys that year,” says Stiles.

“I’ll always remember I stayed home and watched a rerun of The Fugitive.

Sting won that year. I kind of did want to go, just so when one of them won I could go ‘Awwwwww!’ in the

audience, like I had a chance. Just be really bitter.” '# 9>K>9: 6C9 8DCFJ:G/ It’s not always easy to keep the names of the various live shows straight, but people know what to expect when “the stars of Whose Line Is It Anyway?” are involved. “Guys kind of fractioned off,” says Stiles. “We still all get together in Vegas and do a 10- or 12-man show, you know. But the problem is you end up standing on the sidelines for half the show, because most games either have two or four people in them.” As for the naming complications: “Because we’re so old now, we’re thinking of changing it to The Antique Roadshow anyway.” (# I=GDL DJI L=6I H::BH ;JCCN/ Yes, it’s true, all of the improvisers ready did hate the “Hoedown” game. In fact, there aren’t any games in the stage show that require the stars to stand in a line. They now have room to move.

But when one is playing improv games with the comedians Stiles calls “the best improvisers in the world,” one has to be thinking three steps ahead. “Like, I was usually the last guy to sing, so I would just basically think of the first two things that I thought were funniest and throw them out, because I knew they were going to

be done by the time it got to me,” he says. “So I had to kind of think past what I thought was funny to the third choice. I didn’t do that in the old days, and inevitably Colin would take my rhyme. Colin and I knew each other so well that we were thinking the same thing anyway.” )# A:6K: >C I=: B>HI6@:H/ “We could have made shows with no mistakes that were hilariously funny,” says Stiles of Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

“But you have to leave some stuff that doesn’t work in, otherwise people don’t believe it’s improvised.” *# 9G:HH 6IGD8>DJHAN/ Yes, they were forced to wear those crazy neon shirts by the producers, who thought it would make each performer stand out. “It kind of worked for TV. I guess it was what they needed to do,” Stiles admits with a considerable amount of hesitation. “But once in a while, you were just like ‘Oh, c’mon, no.

No, no, no. I’m not wearing the shirt with the clams on it.”

WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY?, featuring Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Chip Esten and Jeff B. Davis, will be performed Friday, March 20, at 8pm at the Flint Center, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino.

Tickets are $31–$61; 408.864.5885.

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Blues and Beyond A musical revue about the blues at TheatreWorks strays a long way from the genre’s roots

HEATREWORKS’ new production, It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues, is a old-fashioned crowd-pleaser designed to leave audiences feeling good about themselves. Built around the talents BLUES BELTING!!D/!Lfmmz!Xsjhiu!tjoht!vq!b! of seven singing actors (some also ijtupsjdbm!tupsn!jo!ÕJu!BjoÖu!OpuijoÖ!cvu!uif!Cmvft/Ö play instruments) sitting on chairs in front of a three-screen slide show, the self-described “musical revue” is a didactic, if weirdly meandering, journey through the history of the blues—from its roots in Africa to its flowering on the streets of Chicago. For the most part, the singing is strong, and the musical accompaniment is polished (a tight backup band sits in for Act 2). It is, in short, a perfectly pleasant experience.

Indeed, it was so perfectly pleasant that I was often reminded of the Country Bear Jamboree attraction that entertained generations of toddlers at Disneyland. Credit for that odd rupture in the time-space continuum goes to the soothing, hypersincere voices of “Mississippi” Charles Bevel (one of the review’s co-authors and original performers) and Tony Marcus (he plays the ever-smiling, white country fella), whose brief bridge narrations between some of the review’s 40-plus songs evoked memories of those animatronic bears.

But I digress, although not as badly as the musical’s disjointed pair of detours to the temple of country music, the Grand Ole Opry. Jimmy Rodgers and Hank Williams, it seems, liked the blues. Imagine that. To lay the foundation for this startling revelation, the revue treks up into the land of the high-lonesome, the Blue Ridge Mountains, for a sweetly sung ode to the cradle of bluegrass by Alison Ewing. Ewing’s pipes are first-rate, but what are we doing here, really? And why do we spend any time at all on “Fever,” a torch song made famous by Las Vegas crooner Peggy Lee instead of, oh, I don’t know, “I Got a Woman” by Ray Charles?

In their zeal to be racially inclusive, the writers have overlooked too many important artists whose contributions to the blues and the forms that evolved from it—rhythm and blues, soul, rock & roll—are far more germane.

Still, the highpoints of Ain’t Nothin’ will probably be enough for many theatergoers. Early in the first act, C. Kelly Wright does a lovely job on a traditional tune called “Niwah Wechi.”

Just before intermission, Michelle E. Jordan gives one of the best performances of the show with her gospel vocal on “I Know I’ve Been Changed.” And in the second act, Chic Street Man’s rendition of John Lee Hooker’s “Crawlin’ King Snake” is wickedly salacious. Marcus, too, has an excellent voice, as does James Monroe Inglehart, who is given the unenviable task of imitating B.B. King. Let’s hope the enthusiastic applause at the end of the performance I saw translates into big crowds at the Santa Cruz Blues Festival this Memorial Day weekend to see the man himself.

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One for All THE SWASHBUCKLER genre pretty much dates to Alexandre Dumasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; famous novel, The Three Musketeers, about dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Artagnan and the terriďŹ c trio of Athos, Porthos and Aramis in 1600s France.

So ever-fresh is the attraction of ďŹ&#x201A;ashing swords that the tale has been made into innumerable movies, most famously by Douglas Fairbanks. City Lights Theater Company playfully tweaks the classic by positing that the actor playing dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Artagnan has gone missing and must be replaced by a stagehand at the last minute.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS, a City Lights production, plays Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2 and/or 7pm through April 19 at City Lights, 529 S. Second St., San Jose. Tickets are $30. (408.295.4200)

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5th annual Guitar solo & ensemble Festival – a weekend celebrating the world of guitar Saturday March 28, 9 AM–4 PM & Sunday March 29, 11 AM–4 PM

Two brilliant evening concerts at Le Petit Trianon Theatre 72 N. 5th St., downtown San Jose

Featuring: Free and continuous lectures, studio recitals, exhibits, workshops and demonstrations.

7:30 PM Friday March 27, master guitarist George Sakellariou.

Location:

8 PM Saturday March 28, amazing classical and ÀQger- picking guitar champion Muriel Anderson with harp guitarist John Doan.

Music Building, Independence High School, 1776 Educational Park Drive, San Jose Directions and parking details at www.sbgs.org

This festival weekend is made possible in part by Cultural Affairs grants from the City of San Jose.

Evening concert tickets: $25/20/15 Order on-line: www.sbgs.org or call 408 292-0704

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MARCH 18-24,2009 M E T R O S I L I C O N VA L L E Y

ART REVIEW

Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe Based on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Once and Future Kingâ&#x20AC;? by T.H. White Original Production Directed and Staged by Moss Hart

A LYRIC THEATRE PRODUCTION Fully staged with orchestra In English with projected supertitles

Montgomery Theater Downtown San JosĂŠ

March 21-29, 2009 Tickets $24-$34

Attention AMTSJ subscribers!

Ask about a special deal!

Discounts for Students, Seniors, and Groups

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Pop-Ups IN ADDITION to its traveling shows, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford maintains a fairly strenuous collection program. The acquisitions of the last decade are being showcased in a series of shows, the latest of which is called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pop to Present.â&#x20AC;? The exhibit brings to the fore purchases and donations of major works in a variety of media by Manuel Neri, Elmer Bischoff, David Park and Richard Avedon.

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With ‘Salutary,’ San Jose band Pericardium pumps out an eclectic mix of metal, rock and psychedelia

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HE PAST YEAR and a half has been a rollercoaster ride for San Jose’s Pericardium. The young rock act has transitioned from a keys- and violin-heavy amalgam to a standard four-piece with two guitars, a bass and drums. And while the musical stylings of the band have morphed along with the lineup changes, the inspiration and drive to create out-of-the-box sounds has remained the same.

As teens in 2006, Sean E. Sullivan and Brooke Dabalos conspired to combine their respective favorite genres into one unique sound, each writing lyrics and singing. “At the time, it was like this idea of a collaborative project to fuse a lot of different kinds of music,” says Sullivan. “Like, I was more into progressive rock, and she was into vocal jazz and stuff like that, and the idea was for us to have a different collaboration on every song.” The duo, along with bassist David Marshall, brought in a friend of Dabalos’ on violin and went to work, eventually pumping out everything from hip-hop to piano-laden ballads on Pericardium’s first album, Apartheid of the Mind, in July of 2007.

One year later, Dabalos left the band, and shortly thereafter Pericardium went through multiple

lineup changes, adding guitarist and keyboardist Mike Black, switching out their former drummer to current member Luis Munoz and seeing the departure of a second violinist. Black and Munoz have added a greater emphasis on heavy metal to Pericardium’s leanings, but not to the degree that it has become a metal band. To the contrary: the quartet draws from a plethora of genres, often switching from one style to the next multiple times within one song. “I feel like in some songs we kind of just try to throw people off,” says Sullivan. “I guess it’s just an extension of what we all love. . . . It’s just . . . ours, you know?”

Their eclectic mix is more than evident on Pericardium’s second release, Salutary, which was recorded this past December at Castle Ultimate Studios in Oakland (where fellow San Jose rockers Picture Atlantic took their business for their 2008 release, Kleos).

In Salutary, which the band dubs as a “minialbum,” Pericardium takes on the task of genre bending, breaking out of the limited molds dictated by the music industry by creating a collection of eight distinct yet cohesive tracks that morph seamlessly from psychedelia to metal to straight-ahead rock.

In parts of the album, comparisons

can be drawn to 311, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pink Floyd, all with a jam band feel, but no one sound pervades Salutary’s entirety. “I like just having all these different genres mixed into this one thing so then you almost can’t even put a label on it anymore,” says Marshall. “It’s really hard to explain to people what we are, but it’s kind of cool at the same time.”

Though Pericardium takes its musical cues from the varied genres each of its members love, its name comes from the term for the membranous sac that encompasses the heart. “If you want to trip out about it, you can think of the band, like the three of us, [as being] like the pericardium, and [Luis] is like the heart, the rhythm,” Marshall says.

To Sullivan, the band’s name relates to the intimacy he feels with his lyrics, that the subjects he writes about are close to his heart.

In writing the lyrics for Salutary, Sullivan drew upon his social and political views, including recent work with Students for Justice and antiwar protests, as well as emotional periods in his life such as the deaths of two friends in a car accident in 2007.

“They were our age,” says Sullivan of the tragedy, “and I had never really dealt with death before. So it was really eye-opening, and every time

that I would write it would really come out, so that’s the main theme.”

Sullivan’s passionate views and enjoyment of toying with his audience led to one of the strongest tracks on the album, “21st Century,” a work that touches on society today in our affluent yet struggling country and that is at once upbeat musically and depressing lyrically. “It’s a little more ironic,” says Sullivan. “That part of the song—the middle section—is, like, the happiest that the album gets.”

However, his intention isn’t to spread a message of doom and gloom. “Even though I bring up some pseudoharsh political things or whatever, we’re trying to preach an idea of unity,” he says. “Like, we’re all one, we are in this fight together, and ‘salutary’ means a change for the better. So on a band level, it’s like we’ve had members leave, and we’ve changed up and we feel it’s been a good change for us. On the level of the lyrics, it’s like we’re trying to be wholesome, good and peaceful individuals, and so: salutary.”

PERICARDIUM performs Saturday (March 28) at 6pm with PICTURE ATLANTIC, DOWN DOWN DOWN, BETRAYERS and WESTWOOD & WILLOW at the Venue, 4 New York Ave., Los Gatos. Tickets are $10. (www .myspace.com/pinupproductionssj)

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Thursday, March 19 â&#x20AC;˘ AGES 16+ â&#x20AC;˘ In the Atrium Friday, April 3 JOHN WEST plus Matt Masih & the Messengers AGES 16+ also John Fox $10 Adv./ $12 Dr. â&#x20AC;˘ Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m.

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$16 Adv./ $19 Dr. â&#x20AC;˘ Drs. 7 p.m., Show 7:30 p.m.

Mar 27 Please Do Not Fight Free Show (AGES 21+) Mar 28 Kelly McDonald Free Show (AGES 21+) Apr 11 Guttermouth (ALL AGES) $14 Adv./ $17 Dr. Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

Apr 15 Band of Horses (AGES 16+) Thursday, March 26 â&#x20AC;˘ AGES 16+ â&#x20AC;˘ In the Atrium Apr 16 Turbonegro (AGES 16+) Apr 16 Euphoria vSC (AGES 16+) MILITIA OF LOVE Apr 17 Collie Buddz (AGES 16+) plus Shama Nate of Dub Congress $8 Adv./ $10 Dr. â&#x20AC;˘ Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m. Apr 19 Atmosphere (AGES 16+) Apr 20 Devin the Dude (AGES 16+) Saturday, March 28 â&#x20AC;˘ AGES 21+ Apr 24 Sashamon (AGES 16+) Apr 26 The Grouch & Eligh (AGES 16+) May 2 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Your Music Olympicks Finalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (AGES 16+) May 13 The Devil Makes Three (AGES 21+) plus Hayes Carll $24 Adv./ $29 Dr. May 14 The Devil Makes Three (AGES 16+) Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

May 16 Bassnectar (AGES 16+) Thursday, April 2 â&#x20AC;˘ AGES 16+ May 19 Robin Trower (AGES 21+) May 21 Dredg/ Torche (AGES 16+) Oct 21 UFO (AGES 21+) plus Chris Trapper Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. $20 Adv./ $25 Dr. â&#x20AC;˘ Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

ROCKERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIZZA KITCHEN 831-426-PIZZA Sunday thru Tuesday FREE POOL $1 Pizza Slice ALL DAY TUESDAYS for Bar Patrons Noon to Closing Wed. - Mon. $2 CHEESE OR PEPPERONI until 6 p.m. plus also IO Echo

Robert Earl Keen

Martin Sexton

Advance tickets are available at the Catalyst daily with a minimal service charge.

Tickets to all Catalyst shows, subject to city tax and service charge, are also available by phone at 1-866-384-3060, and online at our web site

www.catalystclub.com

SHARKS SCORE YOU SCORE (SCHNAPPS ON GOAL THAT IS) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hockey time at Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where any time the Sharks score you score.

FEATURING $2.00 WELL DRINKS AND $2.00 SELECTED SCHNAPPS Offer good for home and away games.

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Since 1933

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Beyond all the love hooha, marriage, especially as a child-farming enterprise, is a business partnership. Each partner has their end of the bargain to hold up, including not becoming substantially different from the person the other person married. Yes, I know it can be exhausting taking care of kids, and tedious lifting big old weights instead of Little Debbies. Well, it’s exhausting and tedious earning a living, too, but imagine countering your wife’s “I’m happy with my weight, and don’t intend to change it!” with “I’m happy with the money I’ve earned, and plan to take the rest of my life off to drink beer and wax my car.” Just guessing, but her response probably wouldn’t be turning the other chin.

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IVjgjh (April 20–May 20): Among medieval alchemists, there were some who tried to make a fortune by literally converting lead into gold.

But the authentic practitioners of the art were interested in a subtler kind of experimentation: ripening and beautifying the shadowy aspects of their own psyches. That explains their motto: “For a tree’s branches to reach to heaven, its roots must reach to hell.” Among other things, that means you have to dig deep and work hard on redeeming your less flattering qualities in order to earn the right to exalted states of consciousness and spiritual powers.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to carry out this alchemy. <Zb^c^ (May 21–June 20): Entomologist Justin

O. Schmidt drew up an index to categorize the discomfort caused by stinging insects. The attack of the bald-faced hornet is “rich, hearty, slightly crunchy.

Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.” A paper wasp delivers pain that’s “caustic and burning,” with a “distinctly bitter aftertaste.

Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.” The sweat bee, on the other hand, can hurt you in a way that’s “light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.” In bringing this to your attention, Gemini, I hope to inspire the rebel in you. Your homework is to create an equally nuanced and precise index of experiences that feel good. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to call on tremendous reserves of intelligence as you identify the numerous modes of pleasure that are available to you, and define them in exquisite detail.

8VcXZg (June 21–July 22): A famous YouTube video shows a small crab perched on top of a giant jellyfish that’s swimming in the ocean. (It’s here: tinyurl.com/6ulpoe.) Apparently this is a common phenomenon. The species known as the graceful rock crab not only grabs free rides on jellyfish, but also steals food from them as it does. This creature is your role model, Cancerian. See if you can develop a safe and symbiotic relationship (perhaps temporarily) with a big stinging blob. At the very least, wangle some benefit out of a clueless behemoth.

AZd (July 23–Aug. 22): “One of the healthiest ways

to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds,” says comedian Dan Bennett. Your assignment, Leo, is to come up with three other smart risks you could profit from taking. You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be rewarded by leaving your comfort zone and heading toward the frontier—but only if you’re fully armed with crafty discernment and a realistic (not cynical) understanding of how the world really works. Please stay away from rash dares, unresearched shots in the dark and crazy plunges rooted in blind faith.

K^g\d (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Years ago a Polish scientist toiling in Antarctica was consumed with longing for a woman he’d left behind in his home country.

Spilling over with the desire to express his adoration, he gathered a mass of penguin dung and used it to spell out a large “M” on the frigid ground. It was the first letter of his girlfriend’s name, Magda. To this day, two species of flowering plants have thrived in that M-shaped area, fed by the fertilizing power of the dung. Your assignment in the coming week, Virgo, is to create something equally enduring and unique for someone you care for deeply.

A^WgV (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): If you find yourself driving

on a major highway anytime soon, there’s a betterthan-usual chance that you’ll come upon a place where a truck has accidentally spilled a few tons of french fries or thousands of bottles of beer or a huge load of sex toys. Why do I say this? Because according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be

exposed to an abundance of some resource that is too much to use all at once or is not really yours to take or is not exactly what you need. A highway spill is just one form this could take. What should you? Don’t get distracted by frustration or confusion. Instead, use it as a provocative motivation to go get the precise stuff you need in the right amount.

HXdge^d (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): After extensive analysis,

I’ve concluded that you won’t serve any time in hell for the shock therapy you’ll unleash this week—with one caveat: The shock therapy must be motivated primarily by love, not a lust for power. My research also suggests that in dropping your bombshells you may even rack up some karmic credit, not karmic debt—if the things you destroy are truly beyond repair and certain to keep causing pain, and if you institute a plan for building a shiny new creation to replace what’s lost.

HV\^iiVg^jh (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “Though the

seas threaten, they are merciful,” says Ferdinand, a character in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. “I have cursed them without cause.” Please consider the possibility that you could honestly make a similar declaration about some influence in your world.

What’s wild but mostly beneficent? What’s primal in a way that draws you back to your deepest sources and reminds you what’s really important?

8Veg^Xdgc (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Study the following

terms: refuge, sanctuary, bunker, asylum, fortress, haven, shelter, safety zone, storm cellar, hideaway, retreat, halfway house, cloister, cell, ashram, clubhouse, lair, foxhole, nest, pit, inner sanctum. Now use some of those words to formulate descriptions of actions you’ll take to enhance both your freedom and security. Example: “When I’m longing for privacy and renewal, I’ll retreat to a haven, not a bunker.”

Another example: “If I need to seek refuge from the unnameable insanity around me, I’ll make a pilgrimage to a sanctuary, not to a foxhole.”

6fjVg^jh (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): No one really knows

when the Piscean Age ends and the Aquarian Age begins. Astrologers have been arguing about the issue for years. But here’s what to watch for: When the transition gets underway, fewer and fewer people will be invested in belief systems, and an ever-growing contingent will thrive on asking questions and keeping an open mind. For those of us in the latter category—the Aquarian Agers—we will prize the virtues of curiosity. We will avoid being addicted to dogmatic theories and rigid certainties, knowing that they tend to shut down our fluid intelligence. We will get a kick out of shedding our own emotional biases so that we can strive to be more objective in our understanding of the ever-evolving truth. I mention this, Aquarius, because it is an excellent time for you to charge headlong toward the Aquarian Age.

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selling Japanese novels in recent years have been composed by young authors entirely on their cell phones. The small screens encourage narratives that are animated by terse rhythms. Flowery descriptions are rare and character development happens fast.

I believe that in the coming weeks you will have a capacity akin to the cell-phone storytellers, Pisces.

You’ll be able to compress complex material into simpler forms; you’ll have a knack for being very creative as you cut away frills and strip things down to their basics.

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Maximum CO emissions: 7.5 pounds per thousand miles. Unburned hydrocarbons: 0.154 pounds. NOx: 0.154 pounds.

Scooters and small motorcycles. Maximum CO: 42.57 pounds. Unburned hydrocarbons: 3.55 pounds. NOx: no limit.

In other words, scooters can legally emit about 5.7 times more CO than cars, nearly 24 times more unburned hydrocarbons, and infinitely more NOx—and real-world testing suggests they do run pretty dirty. One reason for the looser restrictions is that it’s tougher and costlier to put emissions controls on a scooter than on a car. So while your co-worker may think she’s doing the world a favor, when you look strictly at what’s coming out the tailpipe, she’s a pollution-spewing pig.

But maybe that’s OK. Let’s look at the carbon footprint. The major greenhouse gas produced by motor vehicles is carbon dioxide, which is a function of gas mileage. SUV fuel economy for model years 2008 and 2009 ranges from 12 to 32 miles per gallon, for an average of 18.5. For scooters the range runs from 33 to 140 mpg; we’ll say the average is 75. At 19.4 pounds of CO2 per gallon of gas, an average SUV emits 1,050 pounds of CO2 per 1,000 miles, while the average scooter emits 259 pounds. The SUV is contributing twice as much to global warming per person.

The final numbers are likely even more lopsided. A typical SUV weighs about 20 times what a scooter does, so it’s a safe bet that manufacturing an SUV uses way more resources. While it’s tough digging up numbers for a good apples-to-apples comparison, the estimates I can find suggest car manufacturing produces anywhere from 12 to 65 tons of greenhouse gases per vehicle, whereas building a scooter may produce less than 5.

So what’s the take-away here? Scooters emit more pollution, but they help the planet overall by adding less to greenhouse gas buildup.

But let’s not be defeatist. Any way you slice it, scooters are less resource-intensive than cars.

Less stuff goes into making them. They take less energy to operate. They’re smaller and lighter than cars, so you can crowd a lot more of them onto the streets or into parking lots. They tear up the roads less. OK, maybe in a northern climate scooters aren’t so practical for yearround use, and they can’t haul much cargo, so they’re not going to replace cars altogether. But with resources becoming scarcer, we’re heading for a more densely urbanized future, and little vehicles make more sense than big ones. Once the infrastructure’s in place, a scooter would make the perfect plug-in electric, which solves the pollution problem.

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The state of Corporation: California. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Joseph L. Wilson President/CEO #3126832 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/13/2009. (pub Metro 2/25, 3/4, 3/11, 3/18/2009)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #520164 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: New World Builder, 2529 Story Road, San Jose, CA, 95122, Johnson Vu. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/31/2008. /s/Johnson Vu This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/13/2009. (pub Metro 2/25, 3/4, 3/11, 3/18/2009)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT #520272 #520845 #520616 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Legato Music School, 5173 Moorpark Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95129, Haruna Shiokawa, 860 Forest Ridge Dr., San Jose, CA, 95129.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Haruna Shiokawa This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/18/2009. (pub Metro 3/04, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25/2009)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WorkSafe Technologies Global Sales, 160 Albright Way, Suite D, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, WorkSafe Technologies of Northern California, Inc. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The state of Corporation: California.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/23/2009. /s/Donald A. Kerr Vice President #C2410133 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/03/2009. (pub Metro 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/01/2009)

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This business is conducted by a Corporation.

The state of Corporation: California. Registrant has begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Nozomi L. Kong Vice President #C3107173 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/17/2009. (pub Metro 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/01/2009)

Saratoga, CA, 95070, Christopher Palmer. This business is conducted by a Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/01/09. /s/Christopher Palmer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/04/2009. (pub Metro 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/01/2009)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #520083 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Idea Clothing, #520849 2456 Kenoga Dr., San Jose, CA, 95121, Cong Ba Nguyen. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Cong Ba Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/12/2009. (pub Metro 2/25, 3/4, 3/11, 3/18/2009)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #519585 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Home Solution, 2. FMJ Partners, 3361 Guluzzo Drive, San Jose, CA, 95148, Felmari Corporation.

This business is conducted by a Corporation. The state of Corporation: California.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/30/2009. /s/Felmari Funtanilla Treasurer-CFO-Owner #C3168294 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/30/2009. (pub Metro 2/25, 3/04, 3/11, 3/18/2009)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #521023

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fireside Cafe, 3375 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, Ca, 95117, Hisham Ghanma, 679 Boid Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Hisham Ghanma This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/06/2009. (pub Metro 3/18, 3/25, 4/01, 4/08/2009)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 420 Smoke Shop, 436 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose, CA, 95113, Oneida E. Cardona, 4667 Whitwood Ln., San Jose, CA, 95130, Manuel Antonio Cardona. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/01/2009. Refile of previous file #509429 with changes /s/Oneida E. Cardona This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/25/2009. (pub Metro 3/18, 3/25, 4/01, 4/08/2009)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aristocrats, 161 N. Jackson St., Suite 1, San Jose, Ca, 95112, Jeff Phan, 1241 Avenida Benito, San Jose, CA, 95131, Patricio Dancel, 1369 Tanaka Dr., San Jose, Ca, 95131, Ian Dancel. This business is conducted by a general partnership.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jeff Phan6 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/03/2009. (pub Metro 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/01/2009)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #520844 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Parkin Security Consultants, 160 Albright Way, Suite D, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Thomas C. Parkin, Inc. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The state of Corporation: California.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/27/1984. /s/Donald A. Kerr Vice President #C1239529 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/03/2009. (pub Metro 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/01/2009)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #520935 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Deez, 2900 Monterey Rd., Lot 154, San Jose, CA, 95150, Dwayne Fletcher, 1639 Pomona Ave., San Jose, CA, 95110. This business is conducted by a individual.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Dwayne Fletcher This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/05/2009. (pub Metro 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/01/2009)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #521001 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fried Dough Xpress, 2200 Eastridge Loop, SP#1106A, San Jose, CA, 95122, Eric Clayton, 1415 Ball Ct., San Jose, CA, 95122, Hilda Clayton. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife. Refile of previous file #519753 due to publication requirement no met on previous filing.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Eric Clayton This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/06/2009. (pub Metro 3/18, 3/25, 4/01, 4/08/2009)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ajmer Cariear Co., 1562 Montague Expressway, San Jose, CA, 95131, Ajmer Singh Baryana, 803 Cape Kennedy Dr., San Jose, CA, 95133.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/2/2009. /s/Ajmer, Singh, Baryana This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/13/2009. (pub Metro 3/18, 3/25, 4/01, 4/08/2009)

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Riley’s Bookkeeping Services, 2. RBS, 869, Lewis Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Sarah Riley. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Sarah Riley This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/13/2009. (pub Metro 3/18, 3/25, 4/01, 4/08/2009)

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